Senate Republicans on Tuesday blocked an effort by Democrats and the White House to lift the ban on gays from serving openly in the military, voting unanimously against advancing a major defense policy bill that included the provision.So Republicans are against letting gays serve openly in the military, financial reform, affordable healthcare, etc. but love handing out tax breaks to the richest 2% of Americans, and pulling out every trick in the political book to see that Barack Obama fail, so they can retain power. And somehow, these assholes label themselves as "Christians"?
The mostly partisan vote dealt a major blow to gay rights groups who saw the legislation as their best hope, at least in the short term, for repeal of the 17-year-old law known as "don't ask, don't tell."
If Democrats lose seats in the upcoming congressional elections this fall, as many expect, repealing the ban could prove even more difficult – if not impossible – next year. With that scenario looming, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said that a lame-duck session was being planned and that lifting the ban would be taken up then.
The episode upset advocates who believe that neither President Barack Obama nor Reid did enough to see the measure through.
"The whole thing is a political train wreck," said Richard Socarides, a White House adviser on gay rights during the Clinton administration.
To my gay/lesbain friends: don't give up hope. The ones who blocked DADT today won the battle, but will, in time, lose the war.
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The Republican party doesn't stand for anything it has no platform no beliefs of it's own. It's just against everything.
As the Count said - it's all about obstructionism, no real ideas. They'd like nothing better than for the US to go back to the child-labor/robber-baron culture of old. Sweatshops and the like. The notion of a vibrant and successful middle class revolts them.
Why that party routinely attracts voters who revile against "elitists" baffles me...
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